Distribution Map

Secamone alpini

                   
   
Russet Secamone
(Secamone alpinii)

Apocynaceae Secamonoideae  

As at April 2024, 9 herbarium specimens, 7 photo records, 2 visual observations

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Secamone alpinii - Strong leafy twiner, very finely downy throughout. Leaf-stalk distinct, c 5 mm long; blade oval or broadly lance-shaped, tapering evenly to both ends, often pointed, margin smooth, c 5 cm long x 2 cm wide. Inflores­cences axillary, much branched, axes slender, end-flowers in small umbels with stalks c 3 mm long. Flowers small, greenish white or yellowish; calyx lobes c 1 mm long, corolla lobes c 2 mm long, spreading, upper surface densely covered with short erect white hairs. Fruit-halves diverging, both usually developed, c 10 cm long x 2 mm diam, long-tapering, thinly downy.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.